CVE record · CVE-2026-98873

netfilter: nf_conntrack_expect: zero at allocation time

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0018 · 7th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 23 Oct 2026, 11:37 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux
  • affected 076a0ca02644657b13e4af363f487ced2942e9cb to before 39cb6ff947c16a576ea68c5f272e634acdcb0085 git
  • affected 076a0ca02644657b13e4af363f487ced2942e9cb to before 90545aa07a183887e9d72ce573c18e08f62e2c91 git
  • affected 076a0ca02644657b13e4af363f487ced2942e9cb to before 9c11d7ea5ff4dbe162e79f00188814ef5483c295 git
  • affected 076a0ca02644657b13e4af363f487ced2942e9cb to before b7f3ee925aee9f1f547d539bc03c35433c238958 git
  • affected 076a0ca02644657b13e4af363f487ced2942e9cb to before 824397af7bfe14edad374c64253dae0187ca623d git
  • affected 076a0ca02644657b13e4af363f487ced2942e9cb to before a39ecb856514274c80d0fac4d128dba6b266a8ed git
  • affected 076a0ca02644657b13e4af363f487ced2942e9cb to before 241ccd2fed9051db443aadce248fc0ab30f55e97 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 3.4
  • unaffected before 3.4 semver
  • unaffected 5.10.271 to 5.10.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 5.15.222 to 5.15.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.1.189 to 6.1.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.6.158 to 6.6.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.12.111 to 6.12.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.18.53 to 6.18.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.2 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-98873
CNA
Linux
Published
23 Oct 2026
Updated
26 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

No source has published a CVSS score for this record yet.

  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0018, the 7th percentile, on 7 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 23 Oct 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.